garrettw87

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Should we be surprised at this, after the whole Anti-Meta Pact thing got so much traction? Like on one hand we don’t want to federate with them, but on the other we’re unhappy when they won’t?

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Read some of the other comments. It doesn’t sound like you’ve been following much of the chatter about the site very closely.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

This is the answer.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

That’s how I’ve been using the buttons.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

I believe you are correct about upvotes. To my knowledge, downvotes don’t federate at all (ActivityPub may not support them, for all I know), so what they do here is merely affect reputation points.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

A boost is like a retweet, from my understanding - so must be a basic bit of functionality built into ActivityPub, I’d guess.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

I see you’re on a different Kbin instance. Was this intended to be a threaded reply, out of curiosity? Because it shows up as a top-level comment on the post for me.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Yes, but my bigger point is that it’s not threaded as a reply to one of that user’s comments.

Edit: Oops, nevermind. I saw their comments elsewhere down here but didn’t realize they were OP. Just one of the interface things on Kbin that needs improvement.

Edit 2: I need to figure out how to do strikethrough text on here

garrettw87, 10 months ago

The news networks only do whatever gets them more eyeballs. If they see that submarine coverage will do that, then that’s what they do.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

“aedificium” got me

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Ernest has brought a server admin on board for this reason. Also a number of contributors are actively working on improving the setup process.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Our rep points are currently broken anyway

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Since it sounds like you have auto media preview turned off, just tap that little icon to the left of the link, and you'll see the image load below the link.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Here’s where you go to do it

garrettw87, 10 months ago

How can you tell

garrettw87, 10 months ago

It's too bad they decided to memorialize the name "r/blind" containing the "r" in their domain, but I can understand why.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

true. 😔

garrettw87, 10 months ago

oh dear goodness. Yes but no.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

Two have been set up on Kbin: (including links for both lemmy and kbin users until the kbin bugs get fixed)
!IAmA (kbin link)
!askmeanything (kbin link)

garrettw87, 10 months ago

I haven't created a Lemmy account, and I probably won't. I chose Kbin primarily because it's written in PHP which gives me the best opportunity to contribute, since I know the language. Haven't done much of that yet, but I am watching development and it's very active. Lots of community involvement and people trying to help. Ernest is overwhelmed but steadily working on scaling up the entire operation (infrastructure, organization, processes, etc.) with help from some great people.

garrettw87, 10 months ago

They’re pretty different, in that one platform has an API and the other doesn’t. 😉